Fête-Dieu
\fɛt.djø\
The verdict
“Fête-Dieu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fête catholique et anglicane honorant le Saint Sacrement le jeudi ou le dimanche suivant le dimanche de la Sainte-Trinité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fete-dieu · Fête-Dieu · French
Fête-Dieu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fête-Dieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛt.djø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
Fête-Dieu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fɛt.djø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fête catholique et anglicane honorant le Saint Sacrement le jeudi ou le dimanche suivant le dimanche de la Sainte-Trinité.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Fête-Dieu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Fête-Dieu, spelled F-Ê-T-E---D-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Fête catholique et anglicane honorant le Saint Sacrement le jeudi ou le dimanche suivant le dimanche de la Sainte-Trinité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fête-Dieu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un soir, au milieu de la leçon d’armes, Julien fut appelé chez l’abbé Pirard, qui lui dit: C’est demain la fête du Corpus Domini (la Fête-Dieu).
Il me semble que je suis à la procession de la Fête-Dieu, et que je porte la bannière de la Vierge.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.